Cameras from RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service captured possible evidence of voter fraud in Azerbaijan's April 11 presidential election.
Polling-station cameras set up by Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission for the presidential election appear to have captured commission members switching a ballot box.
No debate here: As Azerbaijan prepared to hold an early presidential election, even the challengers were singing the incumbent's praises.
Contempt shown by governments for independent institutions and civil society, attacks on the political opposition and independent media, as well as an incessant push to blend the ruling party with the state, are becoming the new normal in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia, U.S.-based democracy monitor Freedom House warns in its latest report.
Azerbaijan's authoritarian president, Ilham Aliyev, has secured a landslide victory in a snap presidential election that was boycotted by the main opposition parties.
Incumbent Ilham Aliyev is poised to win a fourth consecutive presidential term in a ballot that opposition candidates are boycotting to protest lack of democracy.
Azerbaijan's Republican Alternative (REAL), an opposition movement whose leader is in prison, says it is now a political party but will not seek formal registration by the state.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Azerbaijan's authorities have cleansed the political landscape of "virtually all formal avenues of expressing dissent" ahead of next week’s snap presidential election that is set to hand longtime President Ilham Aliyev a new term.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ukrainian authorities to “immediately” return the Dutch passport of a journalist who fled his homeland of Azerbaijan a decade ago, and stop any extradition procedures against him.
Facebook says it has deleted dozens of pages linked to a Russian "troll factory" that was indicted in the United States for political activities aimed at influencing the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Opposition activists in Azerbaijan are rallying in the capital of the former Soviet republic demanding the release of individuals considered by international rights groups to be political prisoners.
An Azeri man living in France has been seriously injured and his wife killed in a drive-by shooting near the southern city of Toulouse, police say.
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